Allen Stanford says English cricket embarrassment breaks his heart

Convicted fraudster Allen Stanford claims it "breaks his heart" to hear of the embarrassment he caused English cricket.

In an interview with BBC Sport from his high-security prison in Florida, Stanford said regretted the damage done to the sport following his agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), which he claims was intended to revolutionise the game in the West Indies.

In 2008, Stanford signed a deal with the ECB in 2008 to play a series of five Twenty20 matches in the Caribbean, worth a combined ?10million, in an attempt to raise the profile of the game among young people in the area.

England convincingly lost the first game against a Stanford Superstars by 10 wickets, with Stanford attracting criticism for what was considered to be inappropriate behaviour around the players' wives and girlfriends during the game.

The following year he was charged with fraud worth $8billion and sentenced to 110 years in jail, causing huge embarrassment to the ECB and in particular Giles Clarke, who was chairman at the time.

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